[PATCH] build: add option to choose to build with or without JSON audit support

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 3 May 2018 09:49:49 +0200
Björn Baumbach via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On 05/02/2018 11:36 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 13:43 +0200, Björn Baumbach wrote:
> >> I didn't change the behaviour. The default is still the
> >> auto-detection. In my opinion this feature is an optional feature
> >> and I am fine with the current default. 
> > 
> > Sure, but in retrospect I'm not.  This was missed when we first
> > added the feature.  
> > 
> >> I would not like to set the default to True.
> > 
> > Why is that?  
> > 
> > A while back we realised that folks were getting builds missing
> > features, so we stopped making krb5 and ldap automatic in this way,
> > requiring an explicit --without-krb5, --without-ldap et al.  
> > 
> > Now that an explicit option is being added, I'm asking that is match
> > the behaviour of our other 'optional' libraries.
> 
> In my opinion it's not needed to enable all available optional
> features by default. There are some additional switches like the
> --with-json-audit switch:
> 
> --with-gpgme
> --with-dmapi
> --with-fam
> --with-libarchive
> --with-regedit
> 
> But actually, it's not that important to me. I just like the 'auto'
> default more than 'true', because I like to keep it small.
> 
> >> In which way would you like to update the man page? The condition
> >> "if Samba is compiled against the jansson JSON library" is still
> >> correct here:
> >>
> >>   Authentication and authorization audit information is logged
> >> under the auth_audit, and if Samba is compiled against the jansson
> >> JSON library, a JSON representation is logged under
> >> auth_json_audit.
> > 
> > How about:
> > 
> > and unless Samba was compiled --without-json-audit, a JSON
> > representation is logged under auth_json_audit. 
> 
> My thoughts were "If I compile with --without-json-audit, Samba will
> not compiled against the jansson libary as well". But yes, you're
> right - mention the --without-json-audit switch is more clear.
> Please find a patch attached.
> 
> Best regards,
> Björn
> 

I feel, 'Samba was not compiled with --without-json-audit' is clearer

Rowland